Spark new ideas and broader impact opportunities through Center ICEÉ«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ™s Seed Funding

  • I-Corps participants Mori Hayes, left, and Kevin Huo, right, interview Matthew Robinson, center, at the Innovation Summit in Juneau.
    I-Corps participants Mori Hayes, left, and Kevin Huo, right, interview Matthew Robinson, center, at the Innovation Summit in Juneau. Photo courtesy of Juneau Economic Development Council 2022.
    Interested in making a difference and broadening the impact of your work?
  • Want to expand your research beyond the lab and classroom?
  • Do you have an innovative idea É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ“ looking for support to build and grow?
  • Interested in learning more about an industry that is related to your research?

WeÉ«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ™re looking for researchers whose interests and projects overlap with our request for proposal themes and focuses. Center ICE is supporting up to five awards of $20,000 each for research projects focused on impact.

All awardees also participate in the I-Corps Program and receive $4,500 in travel funding to support your stakeholder discovery.

Challenge Areas: This RFP focuses on innovations for É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ and their transition into solutions for
communities and industries along with accompanying stakeholder discovery. This RFP is centered
on five topics:

  • Resilient Energy: Support a more resilient society that can adapt to and prepare for anticipated and unanticipated energy disruptions.
  • Earth Systems: Building user-inspired innovative research solutions in Earth science and engineering disciplines.
  • Aerospace and Space Weather: Improve our understanding of how space weather impacts everyday activities and building next generation aerospace technologies.
  • Climate and Environmental Change: Integrating new opportunities to support society as we adapt to and mitigate the impact on everyday life.
  • One Health: Achieving optimal health outcomes and enhancing resilience through the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.

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Accepting applications for spring-summer proposals 

Call open: Oct. 24 - Nov. 27.